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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Ari Ne'eman, The Guardian | 12.30.2015
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Britain’s largest sperm bank has a policy of turning away autistic donors and those diagnosed with other neurological...

By Bianca Bruno, Courthouse News Service | 12.30.2015

Untitled DocumentA San Diego-based medical diagnostics laboratory paid over $4 million to settle claims it gave kickbacks to physicians...

By Erin McKelle Fischer, Bustle | 12.30.2015
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For couples struggling with fertility, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, has become an increasingly popular choice to facilitate...

By Brooke Borel, The Guardian | 12.30.2015
Untitled Document As a science journalist, a lot of your time is spent reporting on new studies, natural phenomena and...
By Liu Jiaying (trans. Li Rongde), Caixin Online [China] | 12.29.2015
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The government will continue cracking down on surrogacy even though lawmakers recently decided not to pursue a legal...

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, ABC News | 12.28.2015
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When the state deemed Leighton Pang Kee ineligible for one of the most valuable benefits available to Native...

By Brad Bertrand, Nikkei Asian Review [Singapore] | 12.26.2015
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Sitting in the center of a queen-size bed, five-month-old Justin (not his real name) looks like a typical...

By David Lom and Eric Baculinao, NBC News | 12.26.2015
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The head of a Chinese firm that is building the world's biggest animal cloning factory has...